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Tagged Barry Letts

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice-versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. – The Eleventh Doctor We all love what Matt Smith says here. To Kieran Kinsella, the…

In one sentence: the Doctor and UNIT must stop the Master, who plans on summoning the Devil by the means of black magic in the crypt under the church of an English country village. That’s it, right there; that’s the story. Whereas, in life, actions tend to speak louder than words, in television – at…

“‘Tis nature’s law to change”, as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester wisely said. Writing in the seventeenth century he wasn’t talking about DoctorWho but change is, of course, the one constant in the programme. Eventually, everyone who works on the show will move on: actors, writers, technicians, showrunners… Whilst there’s no sign of Steven…

I originally read the Eighth Doctor books on the train commute from Bedford to St Albans (isn’t that interesting?); they’re uneven, but this is one of the best. Actually – and this is probably a heresy – I prefer the BBC’s original novels to the Virgin ones (NDWAs and the Missing Adventures). I know the…

…OF DEATH *gunshot!* This is the one with… Alien astronauts who can kill with a touch, UNIT helping British-manned missions to Mars, Liz Shaw getting captured and escaping and then captured again, conspiracies within conspiracies, and the Doctor going into space. It is often said that Season 7 of Doctor Who, and The Ambassadors of…

It’s very easy to dismiss a lot of Classic Who as being of its time. Certainly I’ve been guilty of it over the years, especially regarding the Pertwee era. But nearly forty years on I’ve found that The Silurians (I just can’t bring myself to call it Doctor Who and the Silurians, I just can’t) may…

I know what you’re thinking as soon as you start to read this, ‘what can possibly be said about Spearhead from Space that hasn’t already been said before?’ In many ways, you’re right; this is the Doctor Who story that has had so much attention since its original airing in January 1970. It’s been released…